Cover versions of well-known songs

[PARTSMARTY]

Being a blues freak-almost any version of-GOING DOWN-original written by Don Nix.What a jam !!!

Edited January 14, 2017 by PARTSMARTY

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Social D's cover of the Johnny Cash classic.

 

[Dodge Driver]

Pretty cool, JC!  Keeping with the theme... Via Bob Dylan

Edited August 12, 2017 by Dodge Driver

[Draggon]

You have to understand the significance of Lemmy to appreciate this one. He doesn't have a great voice for ballads, nevertheless.....

[Xingu]

The link earlier in the thread was dead, so thought I would post this again. This is my favorite cover.

[Dodge Driver]

Soundgarden covering The Rolling Stones...

[Dodge Driver]

Being a blues freak-almost any version of-GOING DOWN-original written by Don Nix.What a jam !!!

How's this one Marty?

 

Edited August 12, 2017 by Dodge Driver

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Great cover and video.

 

[iamsuperdan]

On Firday last week, Howard Stern's SiriusXM channel did an amazing David Bowie tribute.

They managed to get Tony Visconti to host, and had 25 artists come in and cover Bowie songs. 

This special was fantastic!

Personal favourites were Garbage covering Starman and Todd Rundgren doing Life On Mars. 

 

I think some of the audio is on You Tube, and if you have the SiriusXM app, yhou can stream it. It's well worth your time!

 

[Fat Brian]

Rival Sons doing CCR's Long as I Can See the Light

 

Rival Sons doing Any Winehouse's Back to Black

 

Rival Sons doing Nobody's Fault But Mine

 

[Dave Ambrose]

There are actually a couple of Aimee Mann covers:

I actually like this version better than the original. 

She also did an awesome cover of Free Man in Paris. She delivered an amazing performance at the Belly Up in Solana Beach, then we went to her performance at the Hollywood Bowl the following week. Unfortunately, I can't find a good recording of her performance, which is too bad. She's one of the few that can do that song justice. 

 

[von Zipper]

Conway Twittys 1958 original version of 'It's Only Make Believe'

Misfits 2003 cover

 

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Allen Toussaint - Fortune Teller

Robert Plant version:

 

Rolling Stones version:

Original version:

 

 

[Snake45]

Ran across this one by happy accident today: David Lindley and G. E. Smith (he used to head the SNL orchestra) doing a nice version of the late great Warren Zevon's Play It All Night Long. 

 

[Rocking Rodney Rat]

My favorite cover of all time, from my favorite band...RIP Grant Hart...-RRR

Edited February 24, 2018 by Rocking Rodney Rat

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[PARTSMARTY]

Point Blanks version of Bob Seegers -Beautiful Loser.

[iamsuperdan]

Deftones do a lot of really good covers.

I particularly like this version of Drive.

 

 

[W-409]

Great cover of Johnny Burnette's Lonesome Train by an excellent Finnish Rockabilly band "Greased Lightning". Seen them a few times and they never disappoint!

 

And this video was filmed by me this summer at Västerås Summer Meet in Sweden. My favorite band, The Go Getters performing an excellent Rockabilly version of Ramones' Sheena Is A Punk Rocker.

 

[W-409]

Well I'll continue then.

Last weekend I was at a Rockabilly Party here in Finland. Monkey And The Baboons from Poland sounded (and looked ) excellent, they performed a great cover of Dave Edmunds' Trouble Boys.

 

And the second band, Crystal & Runnin' Wild was excellent, too! Don't know how well known this original version is, but as it has 553 000 views in YouTube, maybe it can be count as a well-known song.... Anyway, they performed What A Way To Die, which was a huge improvement to the original Pleasure Seekers' version, in my opinion at least.

 

[Jantrix]

I heard this on a local alternative station. It's been out a while but this is the Atari's cover of Don Henley's Boys of Summer.

 

[1972coronet]

The Byrds 1967 instrumental take on Bound To Fall . This track features one of my favourite guitarists : Clarence White !

 

Here's the Brewer & Shipley version from 1974 :

 

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[Fat Brian]